I recently got up at 6am (on a Sunday, during a weekend away with my husband for his birthday) to attend Rachel Symington’s Lazy Bitches Mini-Retreat only to discover that I’d missed the first hour due to daylight saving changes. In this episode I’m sharing… Why it was even an aligned decision to attend, given my life circumstances. How the daylight savings ‘mistake’ was a blessing in disguise. The miraculous way I woke up not once but twice that morning before my alarms. How I finally released ...
Apr 06, 2023•57 min•Season 3Ep. 50
This week I’m bringing the beautiful Lara Gieseke , aka Lazz, on the podcast to talk about the birth of her book, Walnut Wednesday. We talk about… the seed of writing a book being planted in us as children and teenagers the monthly structure of a tarot forecast that inspired Lazz to start writing her book throwing out that 80% finished first draft to start again how important that first draft was in growing her confidence & investing in a book coach how the final structure came to guide Lazz...
Mar 30, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 49
What would it look like for you to be in a space sharing and dork grinning about your favourite things? Fully feeling into your excitement and obsession for what you’re passionate about. Whether that’s sexy paranormal romance, messages from your spirit guides, Carnival Row, or the incredible time of Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Jesus Christ. When I asked myself this question – prompted by two delightfully free child Spirit Guides – I thought… how fun would it be to hang out with my soul sisters...
Mar 23, 2023•32 min•Season 3Ep. 48
In this episode I’m sharing all about how I work as a book editor across non-fiction, fiction, and oracle card deck projects. If you’re curious about the editing process and the experience of working with an editor then you’re in the right place! I share about how I go through three editing passes of a book looking at everything from the overall book structure and chapter flow, to line editing and grammatical style decision. How I support you through the experience of handing your baby over to s...
Mar 16, 2023•52 min•Season 3Ep. 47
In this episode I’m sharing about the delicious and delightful experience available for anyone who has a big creative project calling their name and demanding their attention. That thing that feels really big, bigger than your body, but that your heart and soul is calling you to create. You don’t really know how it’s all going to happen but the idea of it won’t leave you alone. It’s growing and blooming and you want to be along for the ride. Whatever this creative project is destined to become y...
Mar 09, 2023•54 min•Season 3Ep. 46
In this episodeI’m talking about how I invest in mentoring support which is probably one of the biggest hot topics around the online coaching and mentoring space. It’s what we’re presented with, sold, and invited to join the most! I have had a journey of 6+ years in the online space investing in myself in the way of free workshops, paid workshops, group programs, group mentoring, and 1:1 coaching. I wanted to share that journey and the process I now go through when deciding if I want support at ...
Mar 02, 2023•49 min•Season 3Ep. 45
In this episode I’m revealing the topic of my big creative project that will become a book and my signature digital program. Let’s talk about our relationship with time because our relationship with time is the most influential relationship in our lives. We measure everything again how long it takes, how fast or slow we’re progressing, when something is happening or needs to happen by. Our entire lives and our every experience is governed by our relationship to time and our schedule. And yet fre...
Feb 22, 2023•52 min•Season 3Ep. 44
In this episode I’m sharing about how I’ve started my big creative passion project! Will it become a book? Yeah, who am I kidding?! Will it also be an in-depth signature digital program? Hell yes. I share about how the idea started, what tools I’m using, and why the most important thing is spending time with the idea. I talk about how I’m protecting the creation process from the pressure to monetise the idea and any expectations on when things will happen or how the idea will develop. I want to ...
Feb 16, 2023•54 min•Season 3Ep. 43
In this episode I’m sharing how I was invited to plan editing projects through 2023 and how it freaked me out! I have spent the past three years in business guided by my vision and the next aligned actions. In all that time I’ve never planned more than one or two weeks ahead. Prior to that I would have annual planning retreats with my business bestie to break the year ahead into quarterly and monthly goals. I would relish the new year period for the onslaught of planners and ways to finally stay...
Feb 09, 2023•59 min•Season 3Ep. 42
In this episode I’m sharing my experience in pursuit of The Thing that is my passion and purpose. The Thing that will become my prosperous online business. The Thing that will attract an ever growing audience. The Thing that will convert that audience effortlessly into offers that will make me millions. When it appeared that I had found The Thing with book editing, I was shown the choice of two different paths forward. I remembered that it’s not about one thing at all. It’s never about one thing...
Feb 01, 2023•54 min•Season 3Ep. 41
On this episode I’m talking about the hate-hate relationship I’ve had with daily habits my whole life. First it was because I could never “make” myself stick to them and then it was a FU to a society built around men who have a daily hormone cycle when, as a woman, I have a monthly hormone cycle. Over the past month I’ve redefined and reestablished my relationship with commitment, committing to consistent action, daily action, weekly action. It’s not WHAT I’m doing that matters, it’s HOW I’m doi...
Jan 25, 2023•58 min•Season 3Ep. 40
In this episode I’m talking to three concepts in business that we have tied very tightly together that don’t inherently have to be attached. They are only connected because we have been told and taught and believe them to be so. Yet there are so many more possibilities and opportunities and paths of ease available to us when we disconnect these concepts from each other. The concepts are… receiving money, our paid work, and our creative self expression. We have tangled these three up together to ...
Jan 18, 2023•53 min•Season 3Ep. 39
In this episode I’m taking you behind the scenes of the journey I’ve experienced in birthing this podcast after declaring years ago that I would NOT do a podcast and completely taking it off the table. That all changed in December 2021 as I started this podcast not for marketing purposes, not to grow my audience, not to make conversion and sales, but as a channel for creative self expression. A channel for my own creative self expression that didn’t require anyone to say yes to me. It didn’t req...
Jan 11, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 38
In today's episode I’m talking about the purpose of ideas and how I’ve discovered that so often the purpose of an idea is not the execution or the completion of the idea. The purpose of the idea is simply to get us to the next step, to take us through our journey to the next point in the road. The purpose of the idea is to create safety and security and a sense of certainty so that we are supported to continue on the journey. These ideas can take us to all kinds of unexpected and delightful plac...
Jan 04, 2023•47 min
In today's episode I’m talking about how I’ve created more space in my life than I know what to do with, not just once but over and over and over again. I share the journey I’ve been on creating space through different phases of my life with my weekends, my family, and my business. Then what happened when this book editing business lands and the clients are received. I find myself busy and booked out instead of the desired feeling of spacious and booked out. It’s a really interesting (read: grow...
Dec 28, 2022•49 min
In today's episode we’re continuing on behind the scenes of this book editing business landing and all my dreams starting to come true before I’ve even caught up with what’s happening. I talk about how I went through a honeymoon phase with new clients and then needed to reintegrate back into life, back into a state of ebb and flow that could be sustained long term. So, I’ve not even caught up to the fact that this book editing business is a thing I’m doing. I’m still working through putting the ...
Dec 21, 2022•46 min
In this episode I’m taking you behind the scenes of how my book editing and coaching business manifested in a way that felt like the Universe offering it to me on a silver platter and I just needed to say yes. The invitation came through my first book editing client, Rose Tautari, leading up to the interview we did together for the launch of her book, Soulprenuer. And I thought, what if this could be a thing? What if I could get paid to read books that I would love to buy and read anyway? What i...
Dec 14, 2022•58 min•Season 3Ep. 3
On today’s episode I have the amazing Elliott Rose with me who is the author of the sexy paranormal romance, Sweet inferno. The first book in the Nocturnal Hearts series which is out this week. We are going to go behind the scenes of the series to talk about how this idea and these characters came to Rose. How she’s experienced the writing process this time around after her previous non-fiction book, Soulpreneur. What the editing process was like and more! As Rose’s editor, I have read Lia and F...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 33
Welcome to the Birthing Your Book podcast where we share this journey of experiencing a full creative self expression. Today's episode is an interview I did with Rose Tautari as part of her book launch for Soulpreneur, the book that birthed this book editing and coaching business. I am very excited to take you behind the scenes of how Rose and I became connected through this book and how this book editing thing became a thing. We also talk about what that book editing relationship and process lo...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Welcome to this very first episode of the Birthing Your Book podcast. This third evolution of the podcast where I release an online business of six years and start a brand new one as book editor & coach for Soulpreneurs that seemed to just land divinely in my lap. I am very excited to bring you a whole lot of different things under the banner of the Birthing Your Book Podcast, because we are here for full creative self expression. We are not here for limits. We are not here for niching down....
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 1
I'm so excited to be talking about Do you want it to feel easy or hard in episode 30 It is time to talk about what feels easy, what feels hard, and how that works with this concept of ease and flow. Press play to join me in this conversation. So I do invite you to join the conversation, feel free to respond to this in your own content and tag me. Come on to YouTube, we'll have it up and you can pop anything you want to say in the comments there. I would love to connect with you over on Instagram...
Sep 11, 2022•47 min
This episode is from a livestream series I did last year called Let Your Intuition Lead. The third in the series I speak about what happens once we hear what our intuition is suggesting, how to deal when we don’t like what it’s saying, and taking inspired action by allowing our intuition to lead. “A lot of the time we get this idea and it freaks us out. We’re not ready to take action on it or even consider it further. But if we give it some time and space, it integrates and the idea comes back t...
Aug 07, 2022•1 hr 26 min
This episode is from a livestream series I did last year called Let Your Intuition Lead. The second in the series is for those of us with bleeding wombs, who are connected to our intuition in a beautiful moonthly cycle that gets louder and louder as our cycle progresses. I share how we can use this cycle to connect deeper with our intuition despite a lifetime of being told it’s wrong. “It's really important for us to not spend another few 100 years trapped outside of the very natural cycle that ...
Jul 27, 2022•50 min
This episode is from a livestream series I did last year called Let Your Intuition Lead. The first in the series I’m talking all about how we’re so conditioned to look outside of ourselves for answers, how well that’s served us (or not), and moments when we’ve still heard our intuition despite all the noise outside of ourselves. “I'm all about not only supporting you in doing something different, but in how you were doing that. Because I want you, I want all of us, to be thoroughly enjoying our ...
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 3 min
In this episode I’m joined by Kayla Gebert, who is empowering wahine to embody their cyclical nature through the wisdom of consciously connecting with their menstrual cycle. We had such a beautiful, nourishing conversation about… * working with masculine and feminine energies * cyclical rhythms we find in our menstrual cycle, the seasons, even in our days and weeks * recognising and celebrating our anniversaries as mums (and parents) with reflection on our children’s birthdays and mother’s day *...
Jul 17, 2022•56 min
In this episode I’m talking about growing our businesses to a place where they can stand on their own, where they become a separate entity to our personal selves, where they can grow in impact beyond the limits of our person. It is in this way that our businesses facilitate the freedom, flexibility, and fulfilment we desire. “We've grown this amazing business. We've built it up to a certain point. And it's become capped because it's capped by our energy and our space and our time. We need to all...
Jul 11, 2022•31 min
This episode I’m sharing the incredible journey of creative self expression I’ve been on since reading The Sound of Paper by Julia Cameron and integrating my creative artist back into my current self. “When we come from our soul purpose and our soul mission. First, we are here to create. And we are here to share. We're here to share words. We're here to share art. We're here to share in lots of different mediums. There's lots of different ways we can create and share our message and share our ex...
Jul 03, 2022•52 min
This episode began as a book club style discussion after reading The Sound of Paper by Julia Cameron and ended up being me sharing the very beginning of my journey as a fiction writer pursuing a career as a published novelist, what it looked like for me back then to be dedicated to that path, and how it all fell apart to leave me with online business. “I always wanted to be a full time writer. I wanted to be a novelist. I wanted to be published. I wanted that to be the thing that I did in my lif...
Jun 26, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 23
In this episode I’m joined by Support Queen, Ebony Tipene talking about the deep desire we have to support and help others through our businesses. And yet are we able to receive that same level of support we’re so willing to lavish on our clients? Ebony Tipene is a behind the scenes alchemist when it comes to supporting women in their businesses. “Ultimately, what I do is give support. I give a lot of it all the time. That's what lights me up, lights my sacral on fire all the time. It's the rece...
Jun 19, 2022•54 min
While we have broken away from working “in the system” and “for the man”. We are still living within the same community, culture, society that supports and normalises “the day job” with all the limitations on our freedom, flexibility, fulfilment, and funds that we desire to break from. To experience our wildest dreams through the freedom, flexibility, fulfilment, and funds we have always known our business can facilitate… We’re creating a new culture. A new culture with new “....ideas, customs, ...
Jun 12, 2022•47 min
